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Encyclopedia > Dungog, New South Wales
Dungog
New South Wales

The Main Street of Dungog
Population: 2,116 (2001)[1]
Postcode: 2420
LGA: Dungog Shire
County: Durham
Parish: Dungog
State District: Upper Hunter[2]
Federal Division: Paterson[3]
Mean Max Temp Mean Min Temp Rainfall
20.6 °C
69 °F
12.2 °C
54 °F
1310.8 mm
51.6 in

Dungog is a small town in New South Wales, Australia. It has a population of over 2,000 people and is the centre of the Dungog Shire. The name is said to be a corruption of an Aboriginal word meaning "clear hills". “NSW” redirects here. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 1. ... Australian postcodes have four digits; envelopes for posting from Australia reflect this. ... Map of Local Government Areas in New South Wales Types of LGAs in New South Wales The Local Government Areas of New South Wales, Australia have been subject to periodic bouts of restructuring and rationalisation by the State Government, involving voluntary and involuntary amalgamation of areas. ... Dungog Shire is a Local Government Area in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia. ... Most of the Western and Central parts of Australia were never divided into counties;  No counties  Has been subdivided into counties Cadastral divisions of Australia refers to the parts of Australia which are divided into the cadastral units of counties, parishes, hundreds, and other divisions for the purposes of land... Durham County, New South Wales was one of the original Nineteen Counties in New South Wales and is now one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. ... Parish Hall of St. ... State Electoral District is a term used to refer to a voting area within Australian states. ... Upper Hunter is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. ... The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. ... The Division of Paterson is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. ... Celsius is, or relates to, the Celsius temperature scale (previously known as the centigrade scale). ... For other uses, see Fahrenheit (disambiguation). ... Celsius is, or relates to, the Celsius temperature scale (previously known as the centigrade scale). ... For other uses, see Fahrenheit (disambiguation). ... ‹ The template below (Unit of length) is being considered for deletion. ... An inch (plural: inches; symbol or abbreviation: in or, sometimes, ″ - a double prime) is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... “NSW” redirects here. ... Dungog Shire is a Local Government Area in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia. ... Languages Several hundred indigenous Australian languages (many extinct or nearly so), Australian English, Australian Aboriginal English, Torres Strait Creole, Kriol Religions Primarily Christian, with minorities of other religions including various forms of Traditional belief systems based around the Dreamtime Related ethnic groups see List of Indigenous Australian group names Indigenous...


It is in the middle of what was once dairy and timber country and is now more significantly a dormitory outer suburb of Newcastle. Dungog High School has over 850 students, 55 teachers, 38 rooms, 100 computers, 2 ovals and school grounds of roughly 8 Ha. Disambiguation: This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ...


The town's station has been served by the North Coast railway line since 1911. As of 2006 there were approximately six regional rail services and six XPT (Xpress Passenger Train) services a day to Dungog, run by CityRail and CountryLink, with the two afternoon CityRail services being 620/720 railcars (known as "Rattlers"). Dungog railway station is the terminus of one of the branches of the Hunter Line of the CityRail outer suburban network. ... The North Coast Line is a primary rail route on the North Coast of New South Wales, and forms a major part of the route between Sydney and Brisbane. ... CountryLink is the name given to the train services that runs throughout regional areas in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... The concourse of  Central Railway Station, the main station on the CityRail network. ... CountryLink is the name given to the train and coach services that runs throughout regional areas in the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. ...


Dungog also has a large football (soccer) club which dominates regional competitions and is now a contender for the premiership in each age division , and also a Rugby League club called the Dungog Warriors which has teams in the adults and juniors.


Dungog is the home of the oldest cinema still running in NSW. The cinema is known as the "James Theater" and receives all the new movie releases very close to cinemas in more populated areas.


The High School in the area; Dungog High School (or DHS as some students refer to it) has a fairly large number of pupils attending, as children/teenagers from nearly all of the surrounding towns (e.g: Gresford, Patterson, Vacy, Wallarobba, East Gresford, and Glen Martin) which gives it a large number of people in attendence.


References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (9 March 2006). Dungog (Urban Centre/Locality). 2001 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
  2. ^ Upper Hunter. New South Wales Electoral Commission.
  3. ^ Paterson. Australian Electoral Commission.

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Coordinates: 32°24′S 151°45′E / -32.4, 151.75 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


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Situated 160 km north of Sydney, on the mouth of the Hunter River, it is the predominant city within the Hunter Valley region, a significant coal shipping centre and Australia's largest provincial city (that is, the largest city that is not the capital of a state or territory).
The new settlement comprising convicts and a military guard, arrived at the Hunter River on March 27, 1804, in three ships, the Lady Nelson, the Resource and the James.
The south western suburbs are left out, as the STA bus coverage is only about 3/4 of the metro area, therefore, people who live in the southern suburbs have a lot of trouble getting around without cars as local buses generally finish by 6pm and the train service ends at 11.30 pm.
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